17 Mar
2002
17 Mar
'02
4:10 a.m.
I just took a look at the docs for the Series 5 Altos computers and
there is a repair ticket for a Mitsubishi M4853 Disk Drive. The floppy
disk summary docs indicate that drive is a 5.25, HH, 720K, 96 TPI drive.
The CP/M version with my Altos 580 is 2.2 Licensed from Digital Research
by Lambda Software (4 disks.) Each of the six disks I have are labeled
double sided, double density, soft sectored. Of the two other disks, one
is for the 580-20 and is labeled MPM/CPM for Altos 580-20, the other
Altos Diags for model 580-x.
Hope this helps!
Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
IIRC the Floppy on an Altos 580 is DSQD.
Am I correct that while different from standard
DSDD, they are *not* GCR drives?
What other machines might carry these drives, can I
hook one up to a standard PC controller in a box
running DOS, and then duplicate the disks?
I had one that had the CMI hard drive replaced
with a Seagate ST225. So I
know they will take similar configured Hard Drives. I think they will take
10, 15 and 20 Meg HDs.
This is good to know, ST225s still pop up from time to time...
-dq